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Our goals here are to help you understand traditional Chinese medicine. To explain its holistic approach in the health care you will receive in
my office. To explain what you may expect from treatments from start to
finish, so that you can make comfortable and educated health care
decisions.
About myself ... My name is Kerry Abaco. I
have been practicing Traditional Chinese Medicine for over ten years. I
graduated from the National Institute of Oriental Medicine in Orlando
Florida in 1997 with academic honors. There I was chosen by Doctor
Brad Miller MD to also do a clinical rotation internship, as an
allopathic physician, in Doctor Stanley Stockhammer DO office
in Deland Florida. For the record, I am neither an MD nor a DO . I am a Board
Certified Acupuncture Physician.
Treatments ... The
initial treatment may be slightly longer due to the longer initial
consultation, more detailed examination, and questions from each of us.
A typical session is approximately one hour, with the actual
treatment time being the traditional twenty to thirty minutes. The
times also may vary due to either of these factors: type of disharmony
(disease) either chronic or acute, age of patient, or treatment plan.
My view on providing health care ...Very
simply put, I only treat one person. Whoever has come seeking help, I
treat as if they were myself. In every aspect. I want gentle treatment.
I want the most help I can get. I want my pain gone, and / or my
condition improved as quickly and safely and cost efficient as
possible. If I need a little more time (and to the extent that doesn't cause undue waiting for the next person) I get it.
Results what and when to expect ... How much relief? Results will vary from person to person. Acupuncture
is usually a series of treatments. Typically, the first treatment may
bring some relief or complete relief, but possibly none. The second
treatment should build on the first and each successive treatment should increase exponentially .
When? Some
conditions respond immediately as soon as the treatment is over. Some a
few hours after, and I have even seen results up to two days later.
Some conditions may respond in one, or very few treatments, neck
issues, knee pain and sciatica for example. On the other side of the
spectrum, some issues related to menstrual cycles may take months to regulate.
The World Health Organization has listed the following conditions as being treatable by Acupuncture:
Diseases and disorders that can be treated with acupuncture (quoted from The World Health Organization website).
The diseases or disorders for which acupuncture therapy has been
tested in controlled clinical trials reported in the recent literature
can be classified into four categories as shown below.
1. Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which acupuncture has
been proved through controlled trials to be an effective treatment:
Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy
Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever)
Biliary colic
Depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following stroke)
Dysentery, acute bacillary
Dysmenorrhoea, primary
Epigastralgia, acute (in peptic ulcer, acute and chronic gastritis, and gastrospasm)
Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders)
Headache
Hypertension, essential
Hypotension, primary
Induction of labour
Knee pain
Leukopenia
Low back pain
Malposition of fetus, correction of
Morning sickness
Nausea and vomiting
Neck pain
Pain in dentistry (including dental pain and temporomandibular dysfunction)
Periarthritis of shoulder
Postoperative pain
Renal colic
Rheumatoid arthritis
Sciatica
Sprain
Stroke
Tennis elbow
2. Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which the therapeutic
effect of acupuncture has been shown but for which further proof is
needed:
Abdominal pain (in acute gastroenteritis or due to gastrointestinal spasm)
Acne vulgaris
Alcohol dependence and detoxification
Bell’s palsy
Bronchial asthma
Cancer pain
Cardiac neurosis
Cholecystitis, chronic, with acute exacerbation
Cholelithiasis
Competition stress syndrome
Craniocerebral injury, closed
Diabetes mellitus, non-insulin-dependent
Earache
Epidemic haemorrhagic fever
Epistaxis, simple (without generalized or local disease)
Eye pain due to subconjunctival injection
Female infertility
Facial spasm
Female urethral syndrome
Fibromyalgia and fasciitis
Gastrokinetic disturbance
Gouty arthritis
Hepatitis B virus carrier status
Herpes zoster (human (alpha) herpesvirus 3)
Hyperlipaemia
Hypo-ovarianism
Insomnia
Labour pain
Lactation, deficiency
Male sexual dysfunction, non-organic
Ménière disease
Neuralgia, post-herpetic
Neurodermatitis
Obesity
Opium, cocaine and heroin dependence
Osteoarthritis
Pain due to endoscopic examination
Pain in thromboangiitis obliterans
Polycystic ovary syndrome (Stein-Leventhal syndrome)
Postextubation in children
Postoperative convalescence
Premenstrual syndrome
Prostatitis, chronic
Pruritus
Radicular and pseudoradicular pain syndrome
Raynaud syndrome, primary
Recurrent lower urinary-tract infection
Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
Retention of urine, traumatic
Schizophrenia
Sialism, drug-induced
Sjögren syndrome
Sore throat (including tonsillitis)
Spine pain, acute
Stiff neck
Temporomandibular joint dysfunction
Tietze syndrome
Tobacco dependence
Tourette syndrome
Ulcerative colitis, chronic
Urolithiasis
Vascular dementia
Whooping cough (pertussis)
3. Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which there are only
individual controlled trials reporting some therapeutic effects, but
for which acupuncture is worth trying because treatment by conventional
and other therapies is difficult:
Chloasma
Choroidopathy, central serous
Colour blindness
Deafness
Hypophrenia
Irritable colon syndrome
Neuropathic bladder in spinal cord injury
Pulmonary heart disease, chronic
Small airway obstruction
4. Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which acupuncture may
be tried provided the practitioner has special modern medical knowledge
and adequate monitoring equipment:
Breathlessness in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Coma
Convulsions in infants
Coronary heart disease (angina pectoris)
Diarrhoea in infants and young children
Encephalitis, viral, in children, late stage
Paralysis, progressive bulbar and pseudobulbar
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